| Uripiv | |
|---|---|
| Spoken in | Vanuatu |
| Region | Malakula |
| Native speakers | 9,000 for dialect continuum (date missing) |
| Language family |
Austronesian
|
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | upv |
Uripiv, or more precisely Uripiv-Wala-Rano-Atchin, is a language spoken on Vanuatu. Uripiv is spoken today by about 9,000 people. Literacy rate of Uripiv speakers in their own language is about 10 - 30%.
Uripiv proper forms a dialect chain with other dialects, namely Wala-Rano and Atchin. Uripiv dialect is the most northerly of these, and has 85% of its words in common with Atchin, at the opposite (southern) end of the chain.
Uripiv is one of the few well-documented languages that use the rare bilabial trill.